kaffeine says audio device busy
Peter Garrett
peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au
Tue Nov 13 03:49:52 UTC 2007
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:01:10 +0100
Bram Kuijper <a.l.w.kuijper at rug.nl> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Suddenly, when I start Kaffeine, it says: "audio output unavailable,
> device is busy()"
>
> when I do
> ps ax | grep alsa
> or
> ps ax | grep xine
> not any processes are returned... how can I restart my sound card,
> without rebooting the whole system.
Try
lsof /dev/snd/*
That should show what is using the sound device.
and
ps aux | grep esd
ps aux | grep arts
One or several of those should show a result. I have often found that a
simple
killall esd
for example, does the trick - but artsd is more likely, with a KDE app like
Kaffeine
--
Unix is hard to learn. The process of learning it is one of multiple
small epiphanies. -- Neal Stephenson
More information about the ubuntu-users
mailing list